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“Strange, how mortal men blame us gods for everything! They claim that evil comes from us; yet is it not often they themselves who, in defiance of fate, bring ruin upon their own heads through their own folly?”

Celaena whole chapter: 🎀🌸✨✨✨
Celaena’s last words:☠️

“Russian military pilots—the officers who take combat positions in long-range and strategic aircraft, and in the Tu-95 there are as many as seven of them—are real war criminals. They may not see with their own eyes, but they fully understand with their minds the death, grief, and destruction their missiles bring. For people like them, there are special places in hell.”

“Arobynn Hamel had betrayed her, and now she had no idea how to go on living with such a horrifying truth. Live – yes, but never reconcile with it. She would decide the measure of his suffering later”))))

“There were very few people in the castle whose rank was higher than hers, and even fewer who weren’t afraid of her”.
She>>>

Zmiinyi Island. “The cult of bravery of the ancient Greek warrior Achilles, whose temple was built here in ancient times.” The Greeks believed that Zmiinyi Island was the burial place of Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War.

“It’s precisely what the enemy considers impossible that usually works—because the enemy isn’t prepared for such audacity, such determination, for the fact that we’re capable of doing it.”

“It’s a very unpleasant feeling when people greet you but look at you as if you’re a doomed man,” — helicopter pilot, crew commander.

“Then our food ran out too, but we still had sweets, so we had to survive on chocolate alone — I even remember the guys making soup out of Snickers bars. When I was wounded and taken to the hospital, it became clear that the food crisis was so bad that in the bunker where I was lying with the other wounded — a space meant for sixty people — we were fed only once a day.”

Fcking hell

“Sapiens dominabitur astris” — The wise will rule over the stars.

I don’t understand what’s going on here!!!🤯 Is it a plot twist or no?? I just don’t get it

“Sometimes evil brings with it the necessary and useful good, Diagoras.”

“The gods often speak to us through dreams that return again and again”.

Oh, this book drives me crazy. I feel like it’s talking to me 😶

This book makes me THINK. Pretty a lot.

“And which theories fascinate you?”
“Life.”
“Life is not a theory,” said Diagor. “To live, it’s enough just to be alive.”
“No, living must be learned.”

I needed these words. just needed

“…He was supposed to return in the evening. But he never did. I was going to scold him for being late, but… now I cannot meet Death and scold her… she will not return to me in the form of my son to ask for forgiveness… Oh, my dear son!..”

“Her gentle tenderness is more terrifying than Stentor’s roar,” Heracles thought in astonishment.
💔

“I couldn’t confide my inner anxieties to anyone, so as not to invite such disastrous consequences as self-doubt, demoralization, hesitation, and other insidious processes that reduce resistance to nothing.” — General responsible for Britain’s defense.

Humor in this book is insane😂😂 I guess here is the best “from hate to love” trope!!!

This chapter killed me. I feel like I have no heart anymore.

Scarlett!!!!! I’ve just literally had a heart attack. My hair will be grey in the end of the book

I’ve just had a mental breakdown. Still crying for Adriana. And I hate men

“If we do nothing, we will cease to live,” said Hades.
“And if we cease to live, Theseus will win.”
They were harsh words, but she knew they were true.

These words killed me💔

“I hate seeing that pain in your eyes,” said Dionysus.
“I don’t remember myself without her.”
Dionysus didn’t know what to say, but her words made it hard for him to breathe.
“If I could take it away…”
“You would have to become Death itself.”
💔💔💔

I love the humor hahahah. 10/10

No spoilers but chapter 31 gave me goosebumps all over my body💔

“The Royal Air Force did not simply fly and fight over friendly territory; the pilots who managed to survive returned to battle. Moreover, the British pilots fought with the existential fervor of people convinced that they were resisting a far more powerful air force, with nothing less than the very existence of Britain at stake.”
As well as Ukrainian pilots❤️‍🩹

“leader has to be calm” said Churchill’s wife.